Stuff you didn't know you didn't know!

In the 1400's a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have "the rule of thumb".

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV was Fred and Wilma Flintstone.

Coca-Cola was originally green.

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $16,400.

The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:

• Spades - King David 
• Hearts - Charlemagne 
• Clubs - Alexander, the Great 
• Diamonds - Julius Caesar 

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987, 654,321